LEARNING CURVE: McFadden students reenact lessons in history

8:53 PM,
May 3, 2013

Walker Robison, left, portrays Robert E. Lee and Taylor Yancey serves as Ulysses S . Grant as the two recreate Lee's surrender of the Confederate Army during a living museum Thursday at McFadden School of Excellence

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The Daily News Journal

Fifth-grade students took part in its inaugural American history Living Museum. Christy Moore, who teaches fourth- and fifth-grade social studies at the school, arranged the museum as part of the culmination of lessons taught this year. Moore has done a similar event before, but only based on the events connected to the presidency of Herbert Hoover.

"I do not use textbooks and worksheets to teach. Most people would say that history is ...